Notices by Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻 (suetanvil@mastodon.technology), page 6

Dear Lazyweb,

Can anyone recommend a free service that will host a number of small binary files (~100k) for general download for me?

I am slowly lurching toward providing #relarn binaries via Travis-CI and would like to avoid having to deal with Github releases.

advTHANKSance,

--Chris

@thomasfuchs

Actually, they DID use JavaScript, but the government covered it up.

@jwisser

At this point, it's probably best to treat Facebook as occasionally-useful malware. Back when I still had an account, I used a separate browser for social networks so that they couldn't track me.

(These days, there's the Firefox container but I never got enough use out of Zuck's monster to make it worthwhile keeping the account.)

@craigmaloney

Hisssssssssssssssssss.

@garbados

A classic!

@signalstation

I kind of want to DM this.

@Canageek @CarlCravens

Some languages let you do that but now you’re just dealing with *twice* as many variables that you have to keep track of.

@CarlCravens

If you happen to feel like screaming that at people, there’s a bank office in downtown Toronto I can point you at.

@theoutrider

Heh. The extremely mediocre Dell laptop work bought for me has a list price of $5k. (Although I’m pretty sure nobody ever buys them at that price and it’s all a scam to pump up the leasing rates.)

@thj

See also: this talk by @darius .

(Tl;dw: success is winning the lottery and the work you do is just buying more tickets.)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

@polychrome

Obtain a phrasebook and read responses from it when flustered.

@KitRedgrave

Cool!

I have yet to buy an Arduboy but I’m already designing data structures for a Roguelike for it.

@polychrome

It helped me a lot to realize that my initial enthusiasm for fixing a computer thing lasts about ten minutes, after which it becomes drudgery.

@troubleMoney

Hah. That’s a hilarious nickname for him.

*Wikipedias him*

Oh.

@polychrome

Yeah. It’s a really cool series but Stross has been adapting interesting invertebrate lifecycles into his work.

@polychrome

Have you read Stross’s *The Delerium Brief*? That’s kind of what happens. Plus body horror.